Spiritual Observation: The Important (Holy) Days of Tehuti, Penipt & Ateeri

FISH DAY

Fish Day has been celebrated for more than 45,000 years as the Sebbit day. On that day, everyone from the Pharaoh to the farmer, besides vegetables and cereals, will eat fish. Humanity celebrates this day as the day of reconciliation between mankind and all the animals living on land. On that day, we honor every land animal that has red blood and breathes with lungs, moves on land, and has any expression as creatures advancing on divine paths. 

According to ancient scripts, the ninth of Tehuti is the day mankind refuses to feed on any animal belonging to his world. One eats fish as a symbol of equality among all humans in front of Gods. One shares fish plates with friends, neighbors, and passerby. The day of Sebbit is, in reality, a spiritual festival with values and elements that belong in the initiatic world. Everyone can benefit from the spiritual advantages by practicing the Sebbit, meaning refusing to eat any animal that bleeds blood, breathes air and inhabits the same environment that humans do on that day.

DAY OF HERMES

The nineteenth of Tehuti (Day of Hermes) is the day the seventy-seven commandments were introduced to humanity. This day is the celebration of human moral and intellectual qualities. The Day of Hermes is the day humanity decided to differentiate themselves from other species through the quality of the civilization it was constructing. 

The ancient scripts say that the God Wsr was the one that brought the commandments to humanity. Originally, humankind was living a rudimentary life completely based on instinct and emotion. The God Wsr brought the future perspectives by offering humanity the capability of not only approaching the World of Gods but also by being part of the perfect model of existence. 

This is the official day that enlightenment came upon humanity. It is the day on which the possibility of a future presents itself to humanity, which, until that day, was crawling in the darkness of desperation of a life with no sacred values. 

This day is celebrated with fruit and honey. One eats fruit dipped in honey after one has repeated, "Maata is sweet. Maata is our light. The truth is sweet. The truth is our path. Justice is sweet. Justice is our path. Goodness is sweet. Goodness is our path.” 

The seventy-seven original commandments have been translated and are now gathered in the form of a poster that can be purchased from The Earth Center.

CHARM OF AISHAT

The sixth of the month of Faufega (Day of the Charm of Aishat) is dedicated to the expression of the magic power of the Goddess Aishat (Isis). The Goddess Aishat is one of the rare deities, past and present, that transcends geography, time and cultural barriers to affect the course of the world. She is worshiped by all people under diverse names. Her original name is Aissiata and can be found under the names of Assietou, Aicha, Setou, Ai, Aissia, and more. The Greeks adopted her under the name of Isis, Isthar, Minerva, Europ, Danae, Alcmene, Leto, Semele, Coronis, Mary, etc. 

Aishat is recognizable as the Mother Goddess, provider of love and protection. Every human being can be put in the position of the God-son Heru as a result of the incomparable love between a dead God Wsr (Osiris) and the powerful Goddess, whose love is so strong that it could snatch her husband from the hands of death. Aishat has always been the benefactor Goddess with extraordinary magic powers. If the God Wsr has won over death, it is because Aishat's love for him was so strong that she enabled him to overcome death. 

This is what the whole humanity is celebrating on the 6th of the month of Faufega. Traditionally, it is the date which every human with paranormal powers exposes their abilities to the public. This day is celebrated throughout the whole world under different traditions, and sometimes as carnivals that are directed to God-mothers. In Africa, the celebrations of the Charm of Aishat is a period of joy and reconciliation between mankind, his ancestors, and Gods. In initiation camps, this is the occasion for the neophyte to come closer to the sacred and also expose themselves to magic. Individually, one can celebrate the Charm of Aishat with sequences of prayers to the Goddess, a meditative retreat, or a day of fasting ( a spiritual fasting only happens from sunrise to sunset - one does not eat, drink, smoke, etc.) and at sunset, one can organize a feast in the name of the Goddess. 

SUNSTICK DAY

The 23rd day of Penipt is Sunstick Day an astronomical event that represents the official day from which the distance between the Earth and the sun becomes greater than the distance in the equinoxes and the summer solstice. This date marks a starting point of a dangerous distancing of the Earth from the sun. This happens with important astronomical consequences: the slowing down of the pronounced interference of the energies from the celestial bodies, and the accentuation of the gravitational forces of Earth. The slowing down of the speed of the rotation and revolution of Earth, among other consequences, happens with outcomes on our daily lives that are easy to observe. It becomes very difficult for the heart to pump blood through the body. This leads to a poor irrigation of our brain, having a consequence of a tendency for bad humor and depression. The tendency we have of thinking that winter is a period of sadness is explained more by the slowing down of the rotation of the Earth than by the cold and lack of sun. 

This day is named Sunstick Day simply because it is the official date from which the sun starts distancing itself from the Earth. This is translated in popular expressions by a legend of the sun entering its phase of age and turning old, losing its vigor - it becomes slow like an old person. The expression "sun stick" is an analogy of an old person using the help of a cane for their movements. 

This date marks the official entering of the Earth in the period covering the winter solstice. According to the tradition of the initiation schools, no material preparation for the ceremonies that commemorate the winter solstice start before this date. 

It is important for the reader to understand the value of the influence of the celestial bodies on all the aspects of the energetic ex- pression of the Earth. We will make it our duty to bring it to public knowledge and will be happy to receive your questions and opinions.

DEATH OF WSR

The 17th day of Ateeri is a very special day known as "The Death of Wsr". It is on that sad date that the forces of evil represented by the sterile and jealous God Seth marked a victory over the good and vital forces of the world. Wsr, the God-father of humans, has been deceived and put in a coffin and thrown in the Nile River that dragged him to the sea. The Goddess Aishat found him months later, and while she was hiding his body with the goal to come later and give him his life back, Seth found the body and now cut it into fourteen pieces that he threw into the sea. The God is dead, and, in the world of the dead, he found himself with new obligations set by the creator Gods; now he had to build an eternal kingdom in which from now on humans will come to be judged for their actions. Wsr will then become Wsr Unefer, the merciful God that, by being the first one to be created and opening the door of creation of life and by being the first to die, organizing the kingdom of the World of the Dead. This then accomplished the cycle of life (ankh). The Goddess Aishat wandered throughout the world in search of the pieces of the body of her husband: she found them, reassembled them, and with her power, resuscitated the God. It is this part of the resurrection of the God that set the path to the human cycles of reincarnation. 

The 17th of Ikther is considered the saddest date in the spiritual memory of humankind. The spiritual texts say that most of the words that became common to many languages are born from what we now call the "Holy Drama". These are some examples: 

Crisis: the state of the Goddess Aishat (Isis) when she was informed of the death of her husband. It is said that people fainted when they heard the cries of the Goddess. 

Hypocrisy: deceit and lies used by the God Seth so that he could throw the God Wsr in the water and the crisis that followed (hypocrisy equals hippo plus crisis, hippo meaning water). 

All the ideas about the judgement after death that are preached by new religions are born from this story. Let's notice that it is our awareness about the existence of the underground world that is responsible for the fact that we bury our dead so that their bodies will not be too far away from the course that is followed by their souls. 

The Europeans only started burying their dead around the year 320 AD of the Gregorian Calendar. The European ideology, later on, presented Wsr as the God of the Dead simply with the goal to discourage our understanding of that God that dies to judge the dead and resurrects for our redemption. 

The day of the 17th of Ikther is a mourning day and a day of sadness. Generally one fasts (not eating, drinking, smoking, or being involved in sexual activities from sunrise to sunset - this does not include the night). One spends the time in lamentations and prayers before breaking the fast at sunset. 

At those times in human history when our ancestors sustained a harmony among themselves, their own identity, and their environment; what was natural for a human being was determined by the Code of Human Behaviour. The human brain doesn't possess the ability to create or invent. It is completely subject to what it is exposed to. Without proper guidance, it falls victim to what is controlling its exposure; and what is "natural" becomes what is a part of that exposure. If a human being grows up in a community of wolves, he/she will howl at the moon, walk on his/her hands and feet, and suckle from the mother wolf. It is lucky for us that the creators of the human species and our surrounding existence have pointed us in the direction that enables us to evolve harmoniously.